19 Facts About Rudolf Sellner

Rudolf Sellner, born Gustav Rudolf Sellner was a German actor, dramaturge, stage director, and intendant.

Rudolf Sellner represented in the 1950s a radical Instrumentales Theater.

Rudolf Sellner staged notable world premieres, including Ernst Barlach's play Der Graf von Ratzeburg in 1951, Ionesco's Morder ohne Bezahlung in 1958, Giselher Klebe's Alkmene in 1961 for the opening of the Deutsche Oper, and Aribert Reimann's opera Melusine in 1971.

Rudolf Sellner was influenced by the work of Otto Falckenberg, Leopold Jessner and Erwin Piscator.

Rudolf Sellner was an Oberspielleiter, dramaturge and actor at the Landestheater Oldenburg from 1932 to 1937 when he was promoted to Schauspieldirektor there.

Rudolf Sellner was Intendant of the Stadttheater Gottingen from 1940 to 1943.

Rudolf Sellner directed the Theaterschule Hannover, a school of acting as part of the Landesmusikschule Hannover.

Rudolf Sellner staged in Kiel in 1948 The Persians by Aeschylus, and in 1950 Lorca's Bernarda Albas Haus.

From 1951 to 1961, Rudolf Sellner was Intendant of the Landestheater Darmstadt.

Rudolf Sellner staged the premiere of Ernst Barlach's Der Graf von Ratzeburg in 1951.

In 1954, Rudolf Sellner staged Shakespeare's Troilus und Cressida at the Staatliche Schauspielbuhne Berlin, and his Der Sturm at the 1959 Ruhrfestspiele.

Rudolf Sellner worked as a regular guest at the Burgtheater, staging a cycle of plays by Sophocles, Oedipus Rex in 1960, Antigone in 1961, and Elektra in 1963.

Rudolf Sellner had a reputation for being a representative of classical theatre.

Rudolf Sellner became Generalintendant of the opera company, now called Deutsche Oper Berlin, in 1961.

Rudolf Sellner held the post at the Deutsche Oper Berlin until 1972.

Rudolf Sellner staged Mussorgsky's Boris Godunow in 1971 in Berlin, the premiere of Aribert Reimann's Melusine the same year at the Schwetzingen Festival, Alban Berg's Wozzeck the same year at the Salzburg Festival, Mozart's Idomeneo at the Salzburg Festival in 1973, Gottfried von Einem's Der Besuch der alten Dame at the Nationaltheater Munchen in 1975, and Thomas Bernhard's Die Jagdgesellschaft at the Theater Basel in 1974, among others.

Rudolf Sellner was married from 1940 to the actress Manuela Bruhn and from 1951 to Ilse Rudolf Sellner.

Rudolf Sellner died in Burgberg, part of Konigsfeld im Schwarzwald.

Rudolf Sellner directed several operas for television, and appeared as an actor in films:.